Living
Home on the Mountain
Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland (1900) · From Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes (1900)
Living
On a very high mountain
A family dwell,
Of ten of their rooms,
Nine of them fell.
The old man comes out
With a great deal of trouble;
His wife hobbles after,
Her body bent double.
Their three-legged dog
Is as thin as a rail,
And their rat-fearing cat
Is minus a tail.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Home on the Mountain.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/134/.
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Anonymous Chinese nursery rhymes. “Home on the Mountain.” Translated by Isaac Taylor Headland. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-chinese-nursery/134/.
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